The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says the country’s COVID-19 infections continue to rise as the total number of cases hits 178, 096, as at Aug. 8. The NCDC, which made this known via its wedsite on Monday morning, confirmed additional 471 infections. It named Lagos and Akwa-Ibom as states leading the bulk of the nationwide…
The Yobe government is set to introduce an Emergency Medical Ambulance Service (EMAS), to provide prompt and efficient emergency medical response, says Dr Babawaru Goni, the Chairman EMAS Committee and Chief Medical Director, Yobe State Teaching Hospital. Goni, who disclosed this on Friday at an EMAS stakeholders’ meeting in Damaturu, highlighted the goal of the…
The Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 (PSC), says the country will start administering the second batch of COVID-19 vaccines from Aug. 10. The vaccines were donated by the United State of America. The committee’s Director of Publicity, Mr Willie Bassey, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. According to Bassey, this is…
Australia has reported a record daily number of new coronavirus cases for the year on Saturday with the highly infectious Delta variant continuing to spread through the country’s most populous states of New South Wales (NSW), Victoria and Queensland. With about 15 million people in the three states, or 60 percent of Australia’s population, under…
The Medical and Dental Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal has suspended 12 doctors and barred three from medical practice in Nigeria for professional misconduct. After seven sessions held between 2019 and 2021 in which it adjudicated over cases filed against 37 doctors for various forms of professional misconduct, the tribunal found 20 doctors guilty of the charges…
The African Union on Thursday began monthly shipments of COVID-19 vaccines acquired by the AU/African Vaccine Acquisition Trust to its member states. President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr. Cyril Ramaphosa, said this in a statement on Thursday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). Ramaphosa said it was a momentous…
The World Health Organisation has donated 26 ventilators and 3,560 fingertip oxygen pulse for the management of patients in isolation and treatment facilities, as well as home-based patients in Nigeria. The Country Representative, Dr Walter Kazadi, presented the donation to the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, on Thursday in Abuja. Kazadi said that Nigeria…
Tokyo has reported 5,042 new daily coronavirus cases, hitting a record since the pandemic began as COVID-19 infections surge in the Japanese capital hosting the Olympics. The additional cases announced on Thursday brought the total for Tokyo to 236,138. Nationwide, Japan has so far registered a total of 980,728 cases and 15,247 deaths. There is…
As the more contagious delta variant of the coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads, a total of 505 new cases were recorded on Tuesday in Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC), which made this known via its verified website on Wednesday morning, put the country’s COVID-19 toll at 175,264 as of Tuesday. The News Agency of…
